copepods Q's

[Zoaelite]

Originally Posted by naesco

Mandarins have a couple of requirements one of which are pods. You cannot depend thant they will turn to dead food for
A larger tank is also needed so they do not devour them quickly and than starve.
Lastly they require a mature tank that has been going for 6 months and up.\
I would recommend your setting up a small 10 gallon tank with some sand and fresh rock which is likely to have pods in them.
Than feed phytoplankton heavily


After heavy feeding and a couple of months transfer everything to main tank to jump start pod production in the main tank.
You can than use the 10 gallon as a QT.
Tiggers IME are a waste of money.
Thanks for asking before you bought the mandarins

Agreed, I purchased a bottle of live tiger pods and tried to culture them. It worked amazing for about a week and then the culture crashed, it seems that adding tank water to the culture killed them all. You will be amazed at what you see if you just set up a 10g with some macro/ phyto, there will be a pods-losion!
Levi